The oldest written calendar information in the world penetrates into the past extreme. We are using the ancient Jewish, Egyptian and Mesoamerican Calendars in braided fashion to develop the oldest trunk line of calendar science ever known. To put this material in better perspective, we should pause for a moment to grasp the magnitude of this discovery. About 5,000 years ago or 3,000 BCE, early Egyptians were experimenting with step pyramid building. Djoser’s step pyramid at Saqqara and Ziggurats have resemblance to later Mesoamerican step pyramids. Subsequent ruling dynasties would modify their architecture to the sloped pyramid. The Great Pyramid of Cheops is the most famous sloped pyramid and a wonder of the ancient world. Wooden or reed sailing vessels may have served passage for people to carry the calendar to the Americas and settle near the Yucatan Peninsula. Many are the Mayan ruins and others that support a link across the ocean so long ago. Pyramid facades and temple entrances show evidence of similar decoration. Stelae, standing stones and sacred pillars often mentioned in the Old Testament indicate religious and social connections. Customs of carving stone pillars for writing, glyph pictures and preserving calendar records were common throughout Central and South America.

Sacred writings tend to mix calendar recognition with the afterlife. Life after death is a cultural belief practiced since the ancient world through modern times. Proper respect for the dead is a religious behavior imperative. Abel’s blood crying out from the ground is our first scriptural evidence of burial having spiritual ties (Genesis 4:10). Eternal spirits in the heavenly realm are detached from calendar time restraints.

We know the story about Moses and the Exodus by the Israelites from Egyptian bondage. Moses grew up in the house of Pharaoh and certainly had access to past Egyptian calendar information (Exodus 2:9-10). Egyptian temple initiates trained in the secret operations of the calendar. Priestly neophytes participated in special rituals. Both Hebrew and Egyptian religions monitored exactly who knew what regarding the deeper mysteries of the calendar. Mesoamerican lore preserves an abundance of calendar ceremonial rites. Leviticus tells the story of the revelation at Mt. Sinai, Jubilee Years and instructions for keeping sacred feasts and festivals. The Jewish Ordo de Secretis Intercalationis endorses the secret order of calendar intercalations. Given the sanctity of keeping Sabbath and other holidays as holy, calendar information is sacred.

Enoch achieves the status of Metatron following his transfiguration mentioned in Genesis 5: 24 and Hebrews 11:5. Perception of the spirit world combines bits and pieces of calendar data with dual philosophies toward heaven and hell. Enoch 3 encapsulates angelology with imagery. The significant number 72 connects angels and heavenly princes. Raphatiel is the prince appointed over the constellations and accompanied by 72 great and honored angels (Ch. XVII:6-7). There are also 72 princes in the kingdoms of the world (Ch. XXX). Other references point to the righteous Metatron’s 72 wings. Subordinate to the Holy One, vast numbers measure 354 thousand (parasangs) for the moon and 365,000 (myriads of) ministering angels for the sun (Ch. XVII:5-7). Numerical relationships written into the angelology of Enoch appear as metaphors, exactly like Egyptian mythology. Ending the Secondary Age brought death for all other Patriarchs. Death launches the afterlife continuity for humans and gods.

Majesty in the heavens is complete at the four heads of four fiery rivers. Ultimate Holy One is seated upon the Throne of Glory. His royal crown holds 7 heavens and 49 costly stones which shine the light of the sun globe (Ch. 12:3). Two great princes serve as keepers to write the book of the living and the book of the dead. Enoch 3 is full of colorful metaphors that predominately associate with continuous weekly Sabbaths. The brilliance of Shekina has 1,000 times the brilliance of the sun. A dark cloud veils Shekina to shield mortal people from the blinding light.

Enoch 2 and Enoch 3 define physical astronomy rather than concentrating on relevant heavenly visions. Jewish 364-day Enochian year operation integrates closely with Mesoamerican and Egyptian calendar formats. Evangelical fire and brimstone mimic Enoch 3. Sabbath days and Sabbath year-weeks conform to guidelines established by the Holy One. Lunar months having 29-days or 30-days expand to 29-years or 30-years in a month of numerically matched years. Potential exists to isolate Secondary Age 800-Year Generation Cycles from within the total given Secondary Age. Birth, death and Enoch’s translation outline all three works of Enoch. A lifetime 365 solar-year age suggests factors that influenced early calendars.

The Enochian Sect was only one group of Jewish monotheistic believers. Geographically speaking, the 364 day-Ethiopic-year covered a larger area and certainly included more people. According to Dr. Aberra Molla, Ethiopian people were using the 364-day Ethiopic Calendar perhaps as early as 5493 Ethiopian BC. The 364 day-Ethiopic-year was the parent calendar for the Jewish version and Mesoamerican variations. Reconstructing the oldest Antediluvian Calendar borrows terminology and teaching from Mesoamerica. Enoch cements solar 365 Day & Year single terms to monotheistic doctrine. Holy One is a solitary entity that spans all time eternal. Any diminution of time ranging between nanoseconds to millennia or lunar/solar values fall subservient. Major religion today verifies an omnipotent presence by using a global solar calendar.

Seth epitomizes two subjects of disdain according to Bible fellowship. Venus worship functions in polytheism and idolatry on many levels. Adam’s son, Seth has many identifying surrogate names and purpose. He is largely cast as an unimportant character; a replacement son left to sow the seeds for all Creationist humanity. Once venerated in both male and female genders, as an ancient Egyptian demigod and Mesoamerican supreme commander of the sacred Tzolken, this personage formerly stood in high allegiance with the Almighty. Enoch imbues a single 364 or 365 Day & Year solar calendar, Osiris then a leap day with 4-year solar system, and finally Venus with five-point stars spaced 8 solar-years apart. All embellish lunar/stellar astrology eons ago. Seth and Enoch are among the oldest biblical references to lunar/solar calendars.

Whole number integers were customary for ancient calendar reckoning. Solar-Side Seth Primary 105-Ethiopic-year Age figures 147-Tzolken-sacred-years exactly. Numerically matching Solar-Side Seth 105 Days & Years in a single term fosters Jewish and Mesoamerican versions. Mayan & Egyptian systems associate the Solar-Side 104-Year Venus Round with the character we call Seth. The Jewish version records Seth Primary 105-Ethiopic-Year Venus Round 3 Age. Mayans divided a 104-Year Venus Round into two 52-Year Calendar Rounds. The Jewish Ethiopian divides a 105-Ethiopic-year variant according to two 50-Year Jubilee Cycles. The last 5-Ethiopic-years having 364-days each equal 7 Tzolken-sacred-years or 1,820-days. Seven Tzolken-sacred-years add to get Seth Secondary 807-Year Generation Cycle 2 Age using 364 day-calendar-years.

Religious attitudes toward agriculture derive from the calendar. Feast, famine, planting and harvesting depended upon the seasons. Movement of celestial light and dark formed the rungs of the calendar ladder. The Babylonian Calendar compares with the Jewish in early periods. Dual Jewish and Babylonian monthly names are shared with the Metonic 19-year Jewish Calendar. The state of agricultural products, special conditions, weather and prevailing astronomical opinion had impact upon the calendar.

Early ages in the dawn of civilization need definite chronology or a presently known dating system. Nomadic hunters and seed gatherers began to develop culture, settling into small communities. Some 20,000 years ago in lands east of the Mediterranean Sea, the diversity of culture was spreading. An agricultural community arose in the Fertile Crescent portion of the world. Social graduation to using seasons for planting and harvesting is historically comparable with the advent of specialized labors. Rich soil of the locale and the availability of a fresh water supply permitted the land to be cultivated for crops. The eastern Mediterranean coastline supplemented human diet with an easy harvest. Greek writers later knew the fertile region between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates as Mesopotamia. Literally, the area was "between the rivers" to the Greeks. Biblical geography has aided historical science. Scripture reports lunar/solar calendar eras with extraordinary language and meaning adequate for classical science.

Mediterranean coastlands supported agriculture. Mild winters, fertile soil and the autumnal rainy season provided ideal growing conditions. People lived near the exalted Garden of Eden all year long. Maturation of the societies blended the ability to share cumulative knowledge gained, pass this resultant knowledge down to their children and engage in deductive reasoning. Various groups acquired many skills. Humankind had satisfied basic needs of food, clothing and shelter to logically plan. Inhabitants gravitated into city-states to aid one another and became dependent on specialized vocations. Agricultural economies developed into true city life, complete with a variety of labor divisions. These techniques of social grid work provided mastery of increasingly complex skills. Civilization was beginning to evolve.

Historians generally agree that agriculture began roughly 10,000 BCE - 8,000 BCE in Mesopotamia. Domesticated sheep and cattle were also present during this time. Scriptures mention that Abel kept sheep and Cain was a tiller of the ground (Genesis 4:2). Initial confirmation adheres to the need for an accurate calendar in order to establish planting and harvesting times during the year. Three agricultural festivals that date from the Exodus are the Festival of Unleavened Bread (Passover), Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) and the Feast of First Fruits (Shavuot). Optimizing crop production would be the effective goal of a precise calendar.

The Jewish Jubilee calendar year included two growing seasons that ended in harvest celebrations. Five days after the Day of Atonement, the fifteenth day of Tishri celebrates a 7-day festival called the Feast of Tabernacles, or Sukkot (Leviticus 23:34, Deuteronomy 16:13-16). Seven-days commemorate the forty years that the children of Israel wandered in the desert following the Exodus from Egypt. The temporal nature of life gives reason to erect temporary shelters, wherein eating at least one meal per day in the Sukkah honors God's provisions. The whole family decorates the Sukkah booth with fruits and vegetables. Partial walls and roof admit sunlight and provide shaded areas. Later observances converted this Festival of Ingathering harvest celebration into a historical festival. Also called the Feast of Trumpets, Tabernacles was the only feast with specific instructions to rejoice. The lulav (branches of four species) and the etrog (citron) are traditional wave offerings. The Feast of Booths marks thanksgiving for the fruit and grain harvest. Grapes for wine, barley and wheat were the crops gathered. Coming at completion of the entire harvest, the shofar blast heralds the second bounty in the modern calendar year.

Fifty days after the Passover anniversary celebrating the night of the Exodus is the Feast of First Fruits (Numbers 28:26). Known as the springtime feast holiday Shavuot, the festival occurs during the Jewish month of Sivan (Esther 8:9). English translation adapts the word sometimes to Shav'ot, Sabbouth or Shabout. Seven weeks of seven days determines the name Feast of Weeks for same festival and the transition day from the sixth to the seventh day in the month of Sivan. Sivan is the third month of the sacred festival year, and the ninth month of the modern Jewish Calendar year. The sixth of Sivan honors Shavuot for a single day only in Israel. Elsewhere, the sixth and seventh days of Sivan observe Shavuot. The 50-day lapse between the two festivals represents the complete 50-Year Jubilee Cycle lunar calendar of Moses. God ordained Shavuot to celebrate the revelation at Mt. Sinai. This holiday marks the anniversary of giving God's teachings to Moses. God gave the Hebrews the first Five Books of Moses, which are called the Torah in Judaism or the Greek Pentateuch.

The early agricultural society ended the waiting period for the harvest. Most likely predating the Exodus, Counting the Sheaves for fifty days culminated with the first fruits of spring. Farmers brought the first fruits of the land to the Temple. Rejoicing in the bounty of the grain harvest marked the end of the 50-day interval. Decorating with flowers, green plants, fruits and vegetables are traditional for the spring season. Shavuot emphasizes the Torah with the use of dairy products. Avoiding meat and the use of leather goods reminds Jewish people to preserve living things during Shavuot. With the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 BCE, the agricultural ritual of first fruits became symbolic. The encounter at Mt. Sinai became the focus of the festival.

The Old Testament l/s calendar system used differences between the lunar year provided by 12-months of new moons and solar years measured against the stars. The Great Flood sealed evidence of a vast floating chronology. Traditions and folklore of Mesopotamia deeply embed the l/s calendar system based on the sun, moon and stars as natural timekeepers. Sometime prior to about 3,000 BCE this calendar centers geographically near the ancient city of Byblos. Trees likely held lunar month carvings that later transferred to vertical stone columns. Stationary markers enabled heavenly movements to be sited and recorded for later generations. Popular concept is that a small pocket of civilization evolved ahead of surrounding cultures, probably from Sumerian roots and moved southward into the Sinai Peninsula and Egypt.

Before Abraham led the Hebrews away from Ur and King Menes united the two lands of Egypt, the Genesis lunar/solar calendar reveals several thousand years. Antediluvian Patriarchs from Adam through Enoch distinctly record two timekeeping categories. The Primary Age Category references Lunar/Solar and Solar-Side 260-Year Tzolken-Sacred-Cycles. Lunar/Solar 260-Year Tzolken-Sacred-Cycle 1 denotes time until the character fathers his next named son using halves and quarters. Solar-Side 260-Year Tzolken-Sacred-Cycles 1-2 present a unity series for alternating Primary Age Category members. Jewish Ethiopic 364 Day & Year sequences reflect biblical Primary and Secondary Ages. Mayan & Egyptian comparisons adjust Solar-Side 260-Year Tzolken-Sacred-Cycles 1-2 for solar 365 Day & Year unity. A Secondary Age Category extracts successive 400-Year Batun Cycles. Baktun Cycles count from 1 to 13 in multiples of two sequential 400-Year Baktun Cycles per 800-Year Generation Cycle. The Antediluvian Calendar extends for 800-Year Generation Cycles 1-6. Enoch's last 400-Year Baktun Cycle 13 signals the end of a 5200-Year Great Cycle. Enoch’s transfiguration of 300-Years in the Secondary Age Category culminates the Great Cycle with 13 x 400-Year Baktun Cycles. The final 365 solar-year age of Enoch shows a pronounced transition from 12-month lunar years to 365 day-solar-years. An identical l/s pattern carries forward to Mesoamerican Calendars.

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